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ModernMech • yesterday at 6:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Julia and Mojo are attempts at solving the "two language problem", which not every Python user actually has -- they're fine doing work exclusively in Python, not even using any of the libraries you're talking about.

Mojo in particular recognized to compete with Python they'd have to be a superset, then they backed of that goal when they realized it would be too hard.

So at the end of the day, Python has a value proposition and it cannot be entirely subsumed by other languages, because those languages make tradeoffs that move away from Python's value.


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pjmlp • yesterday at 6:50 PM

Python's value is being a portable scripting language, a better Perl, unfortunately some try to do full blown applications with an interpreted language.